Her Mother, Bridget, Was the Great-Great Aunt of John Dryden. Pardoned in 1987, She Was

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TOSSUP 1

Her mother, Bridget, was the great-great aunt of John Dryden. Pardoned in 1987, she was massacred with most of her children, but her daughter, Susanna, survived. The sixth great-grandmother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and tenth great-grandmother of George W. Bush, she angered many of her contemporaries by lecturing to women and stating that many ministers in her colony preached a covenant of works, not a covenant of grace. For these and other heresies, she was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. For ten points who is this colonial religious dissident who helped found the state of Rhode Island?

Anne Hutchinson

TOSSUP 2

Though studies place its current adherence in the United States at only 6%, it is currently experiencing a revival, with a recent Barna Group study showing that it is now the fastest growing religious belief of its kind among Americans from 16 to 29 years old. Recent bestselling authors who have written about it include Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, David Mills and Christopher Hitchens. In 1917, Marxist-Leninist policy made it the official religious doctrine of the Soviet Union. For ten points, identify this lack of belief in a god.

atheism (do not accept antitheism)

TOSSUP 3

If there is a large amount of dark energy in the universe, this event becomes unlikely. Otherwise, if the density parameter omega is greater than one, then this is the most likely fate of the universe. A closed universe model predicts, for ten points, what situation in which the universe collapses into a singularity, the exact opposite of the Big Bang?

TheBig Crunch

TOSSUP 4

This painting was originally executed by the artist as a part of a series of studies of the night during his stay at Arles. The Alpilles hills are shown in the far right while an enormous cypress tree is depicted on the left. In its center the village of Saint-Rémy is depicted as seen from the asylum in which was the artist was staying at the time, though some believe that the painting was also inspired by the phrase in Genesis “behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.” For ten points name this painting featuring glowing yellow and white orbs set against a blue night sky, by Vincent van Gogh.

Starry Night (DO NOT ACCEPT “Starry, Starry Night” and blame it on Don McLean if they argue)

TOSSUP 5

In 2006, he was named a Goodwill Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. While in the third grade, he befriended an employee of his family’s and taught the man to read and write. This friendship inspired the fictitious friendship of Hassan and Amir, the two boys at the center of his debut novel. That work deals with Amir’s dealing with painful memories from his childhood in 1970’s Afghanistan, a period for which this author has developed into a major theme in his works. For ten points who is this author of A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner?

Khaled Hosseini

TOSSUP 6

It was first formally described by Jean-Martin Chacot in 1869, but the earliest description of a person possibly afflicted by this disease dates back to fourteenth century Holland. Its exact cause is unknown, but scientists do know that it results in the body’s immune system targeting its own oligodendrocytes, which maintain the myelin sheaths that are critical in ensuring that neurons are able to carry electrical signals. For ten points, name this autoimmune disease of the central nervous system resulting in lesions on the white matter of the brain and abbreviated MS.

multiple sclerosis (prompt on MS if given before occurrence in the question)

TOSSUP 7

Sent to prison for killing a man with a shovel, he is released after four years but breaks parole by leaving the state with his family. He crosses the law again by killing a police officer who had murdered his friend, the former reverend Jim Casy. Leaving his family for good, he decides to carry on fighting for the rights of farm laborers. For ten points, name this Steinbeck character who finds California a distinct disappointment in The Grapes of Wrath.

Tom Joad

TOSSUP 8

Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher at the RAND Corporation originally described this game in 1950, although Albert Tucker later formalized it. It was used by many, including Bertrand Russell, as an argument for a preemptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union in the early days of the Cold War. In iterated versions of the game, strategies such as Tit for Tat can be employed to bring about mutually beneficial equilibria. However, in single iterations, equilibrium will occur in which both players defect and are worse off than if both had cooperated. For ten points, what is this game theory model involving two criminals deciding whether to sell each other out to the police?

prisoner’s dilemma

TOSSUP 9

Pencil and paper ready. Two flagpoles cast shadows of length 5 and 15 meters at 5:00 on Sunday, and they differ in height by 100 meters. To determine the height of the smaller pole, it helps to realize that the ratio of the height of a flag pole and its shadow length will be constant; thus, setting the smaller pole’s height to x and the larger one’s height to 100+x allows one to set up an equation which can be solved for x. FTP, what is the height of the smaller pole? You will have 15 seconds.

50 meters (accept blitzes which include the height of the larger pole if they give it is 150 meters)

TOSSUP 10

It was ruled in November 2007 that the fact that state political party officials would keep track of voters’ names and which parties’ ballot they requested did not render it unconstitutional. Thirty-one percent of voters in the Democratic version opted to select “uncommitted” as most of the major candidates removed their names from the ballot. Hillary Clinton therefore easily won, while Mitt Romney scored a major victory in his home state. Half of the Republican delegates and all of the Democrat delegates were stripped as a penalty against, for ten points, which state primary held before February 5?

2008 Michigan primary

TOSSUP 11

His body was identified by the tattoos on his chest. His most famous military victory occurred at StamfordBridge where he defeated his brother Tostig and Harald Hardrada. Although his father was only the Earl of Wessex he was chosen by his predecessor to rule as king. He ruled for less than a year before he was allegedly killed by an arrow to the eye. For ten points name this last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England who was defeated by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings.

Harold Godwinson or Harold II (prompt on Harold)

TOSSUP 12

This film ends with Alice Braga quoting Bob Marley. Braga plays Anna, who along with a young boy named Ethan, has been en route to Vermont on a Red Cross ship from Sao Paulo, when they encounter the main character who has been attempting to isolate a remedy for a cancer cure that mutated into lethal disease. This film is the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s book, the previous two being The Last Man on Earth and The Omega Man. For ten points, what is this blockbuster starring Will Smith as a man who believes he may be the last man on Earth?

I Am Legend

TOSSUP 13

This work is divided into five parts. The first and last, titled “Perhaps an Accident” and “Perhaps an Intention,” record the goals of Brother Juniper’s research and his conclusions, which include a table scoring the goodness, piety and usefulness of five souls. The middle three sections are devoted to the lives of these five people who are linked primarily by the tragedy that killed them. For ten points, what is this Thornton Wilder novel which attempts to understand cause of a disaster in Peru?

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

TOSSUP 14

It has been debated whether or not this unit of measure should still be used in preparing chemicals, because, while human measurements of mass are currently very accurate, those of volume are questionable, especially of liquids, as this quantity often changes at different temperatures. The alternative measure, involving a quantity to mass ratio, only requires a balance, and thus may be more accurate than, for ten points, what measure of solubility and concentration, whose units are moles per Liter?

Molarity

TOSSUP 15

The completion of one of these tasks was accomplished recently in Russia, but Grigori Perelmen declined all honors associated with his proof of a conjecture which remained unsolved only in three-dimensions. One task in this group of seven asks whether any problem whose solution can be verified quickly can be solved quickly, more famously known as the P=NP problem. The members of this group, which also includes the Riemann Hypothesis, were selected by the Clay Institute of Mathematics. FTP, name these questions in mathematics, for which a successful solution earns one a million dollars.

Millennium Prize Problems

TOSSUP 16 (NW HIST)

TOSSUP 17

The author only lived long enough to edit of the fourth volume of this work, but his brothers oversaw the publication of the remaining three. Historically, the first was Swann’s Way, which is set partly before the narrator’s birth, but this was likely written at the same time as the last volume, Time Regained. For ten points, name this massive work employing subjective chronology by Marcel Proust.

Remembrance of Things Past (accept In Search of Lost Time or À la recherche du temps perdu)

TOSSUP 18

Named after a Pennsylvania congressman, it was attached to a funding bill by Democrats who were angered by President Polk’s political appointees. Polk did not understand it as he saw a clear separation between domestic issues and foreign policy issues. Despite objections from Southern Whigs and Democrats, members of the Free Soil wing of the Democrats managed to push it through the House but it was killed in the Senate. For ten points, name this legislation that would have essentially banned slavery in any territory won in the Mexican-American War.

Wilmot Proviso

TOSSUP 19

In its second book, the author recounts stealing some pears as a wholly depraved act in his youth. In Book 3, the author adopts the dualist philosophy of Manichaeism while in Carthage, but in Book 8 he converts to Christianity, influenced by St. Ambrose. The opening chapters of Genesis are analyzed in the final 3 of the 13 books of, for ten points, what autobiography of St. Augustine?

Confessions of St. Augustine

TOSSUP 20

The landscape of this nation is dominated by four major rivers including the centrally located Rio Negro. Most of the nation is made up of plains and low hill ranges called cuchillas. It has an ongoing dispute over several islands in the waterways that form its northern border with Brazil. For ten points name this second smallest sovereign nation in South America sandwiched between Brazil and Argentina with capital at Montevideo.

Uruguay

TOSSUP 21

Pencil and paper ready. You have a transverse cylindrical one-note flute, open on both ends, that plays the note A at 220 Hz. What frequency will it play if you stuff a cork in one end to close it off and overblow past the fundamental and the first overtone to reach the third register of the modified instrument, given that standing waves in a closed pipe have twice the wavelength of those in a comparable open pipe and closed pipes can achieve only odd multiples of the fundamental?

550 Hz

BONUS 1

Identify the following concerning the Gilgamesh, for ten points each:

10:This initial antagonist later became Gilgamesh’s loyal companion.

Enkidu

10:After Enkidu’s death, Gilgamesh, seeking immortality, visits this arc builder.

Utnapishtim

10:What fraction of Gilgamesh was divine?

Two-thirds

BONUS 2

Name the poem from its opening words, for ten points each.

10:“It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea”

Annabel Lee

10:“April is the cruelest month”

The WasteLand

10:“I’ve seen the best minds of my time destroyed by madness”

Howl

BONUS 3

Pencil and paper ready. For ten points each, answer the following about cubes.

10:What is the volume of a cube with surface area 24?

8

10:What is the side length of a cube whose volume is equal to its surface area?

6

10:What is the volume of a cube whose surface area is 81 times the surface area of a cube with volume 3?

2187

BONUS 4

Identify these African ethnic groups for ten points each.

10:This group dominates Northern Nigeria and Cameroon but is found all across West Africa.

Fulanior Hausa

10:Name either of the two groups which fought in the Rwandan genocide.

HutuorTutsi

10: This hunter-gatherer group in southern Africa is famous among anthropologists for spending little time collecting its food.

!Kung (pronounced with a click of the tongue before KUNG)

BONUS 5

For ten points each, consider the following scenarios and determine the direction of the magnetic force on the particle involved. Give your answer as north, south, east, west, down, or up. If there is no magnetic force, say no force.

10:A positively charged particle travels east in a uniform magnetic field pointed into the page.

north

10:A neutrally charged particle travels south in a uniform magnetic field pointed out of the page.

no force (accept obvious equivalents)

10:An electron travels north in a uniform magnetic field pointed east.

Up

BONUS 6

Various bands decided to reunite for various purposes in 2007. Answer the following about those reunions for ten points each.

10:This band reunited for a one-off concert in December 2007 for a concert in memory of Ahmet Ertegun, their former label head. No plans to reunite for good are set but Jimmy Page has hinted at the possibility despite Robert Plant’s objections.

Led Zeppelin

10:This trio launched a world tour in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the release of their single “Roxanne.” No word of new music from this Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, and Sting outfit.

The Police

10:With the release of Long Road Out of Eden, this Don Henley-Glenn Frey band released its first album since 1979’s The Long Run, an album which was the follow-up to Hotel California.

The Eagles

BONUS 7

For ten points each, name these chemical elements.

10: This alkali metal, named for its discoverer’s home nation, has the lowest electronegativity of any element.

Francium

10: This element is found naturally as a diatomic molecule. It is the only nonmetal that is liquid at standard temperature and pressure.

Bromine

10: This is the only metalloid with no known stable isotopes. It is extremely dangerous to handle and has found use in nuclear weapons due to its ability to emit neutrons.

Polonium

BONUS 8

Answer these questions about famous Americans involved in duels, for ten points each.

10:This man became a hero for his daring destruction of the Philadelphia during the First Barbary War. He was killed by James Barron in a duel in 1820 after he criticized Barron’s actions in the Chesapeake-Leopard affair.

Stephen Decatur

10: He fought 13 duels in his lifetime most over the honor of his wife. He only killed one man in duels, Charles Dickinson, but not before Dickinson gave this 7th president of the United States a wound that would trouble him for the rest of his life.

Andrew Jackson

10:This Kentuckian wounded a Federalist in a duel in 1809 in a dispute over what congressmen should wear. This architect of the Missouri Compromise again dueled in 1824 but neither opponent was wounded.

Henry Clay

BONUS 9

For ten points each, identify these works by the German author Herman Hesse.

10:The title figure of this novel is the lonely Harry Haller who visits a surreal “magic theater.

Steppenwolf

10:Also known as Magister Ludi, this novel lays out an elaborate intellectual community which centers on the title rite.

The Glass Bead Game

10:The protagonist of this novel finally gains enlightenment while sitting next to a river.

Siddhartha

BONUS 10

For ten points each, please identify the following Italian opera composers.

10:This prolific figure associated with the Risorgimento wrote the oft-revised Don Carlo, Falstaff, Otello, and La Traviata.

Giuseppi Fortunino FrancescoVerdi

10:Writing before Verdi, this operatic reformer composed his own Otello, La Cenerentola, and a prequel to Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.

Gioachino AntonioRossini

10:Starting even earlier than Rossini, this bel canto master created L'Elisir d'Amore, Roberto Devereux, and Lucia di Lammermoor.

(Domenico) Gaetano MariaDonizetti